The perks of being a Design Student

Hello little sunshines! Today it's February 8 and...

Wait, WHAT?!

Excuse me, but where has January gone exactly?!
I mean, it feels like yesterday when I had the second physics test, and then the third, and had to send in the 6th render, and then the 7th, and then the 8th, and then... Oh, I see.

Let's start again then.

Hello people, today it's February 8 and the world sucks.

Ok, maybe it doesn't, but being a design student probably does. Ok, it doesn't.
Just a bit maybe.
Don't get me wrong, I LOVE doing what I'm doing, but the thing is, most of my friends are studying in other fields and yet, no matter how hard a time they say to be having, they still seem to have a pretty decent life besides Uni - DISCLAIMER: I am absolutely NOT denigrating other study fields.

Now, I know this may seem overstating, but being a design student leaves you with little to no life at all, especially if you decide to take a part time job too.
It's not that we have loads of stuff to properly study - even though I'm surrounded by History of art books at the moment - the real problem is the incredible amount of time it takes to "complete" projects, which in reality you never truly complete, as any design/architecture student will confirm.

Unluckily, projects are what we choose this field for - masochists  - so we can't really blame them, that's why I blame 3ds Max instead. For those of you who don't know what it is, it's actually Satan in it's 3D graphics software from, almost.

To give you guys an idea, here's a list of things you can do while waiting for your final render to be done:

1) Get your nails perfectly shaped and polished like in those cool tutorials.

2) Order a pizza.

3) Eat a pizza.

4) Have a long and meaningful conversation with your parents on FaceTime about how beautiful your kitty is.

5) Google Stephen Merchant on YouTube.

6) Laugh your butt off because of his lip sync battle with Jimmy Fallon.

7) Start thinking about all the songs you'd totally nail if you were to lip sync them.

FML.

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Welcome to Milano

Surprise, surprise : I live in Milan(o) now.
Ok, it's not that a big deal, though it surely enough brought quite a few changes in my life.

First of all, I'm not living with my parents any longer (again), YAY! Welcome adulthood. Just kidding, I must admit I kind of miss them every now and then, especially when I'm having "troubles" with my new flatmates (not that we argue that much tbh). Yes, I do live with other three girls I'd never met before and yes, we do have problems sharing a f*@#ing small bathroom, but "that's just the way it is".

Second of all, I've finally started going to the University, and God, I'd never thought Interior Design would involve such a lot of stress! Nor that its materials would be THAT expansive, I guess I may have just found out why a designed armchair can cost up to many hundred euros!
Jokes aside, I do really love my faculty and its laboratories, especially Models lab, which I still haven't had the pleasure to use, but for which we had to take an enabling test (nothing too difficult indeed),and the people in my course are just amazing: I've known them for only a couple weeks and I already am in love with most of them.

Nevertheless, I'm probably going in Lithuania for one week next month for a workshop between my school, PoliMi, and Vilnius' Design School. I'll let you guys know what will come out of this for sure.

Actually, moving to Milan hasn't changed my daily routine only, but also, and most importantly, the perspective I have/had of my future. Don't get me wrong, I still don't know 100%  what I'll make of myself in these next years, but I do know, more or less, which way I'm going and, I'll be honest, it is an amazing way indeed.

I'll go to sleep now, since I'm feeling like crap and I unfortunately have 9h lab tomorrow, I'll be writing soon, I hope.

Thank you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6-EUSvJchI

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The UGLY BFF Message

Since I recently finished that hell which is usually called "High School" , my Facebook timeline and my WhatsApp conversations have been invaded by thousands of posts and messages declaring the love that each one of my now ex-school mates felt for each one of us; and this doesn't apply only to them, but to most of the now ex-students of almost every high school there is in my city.

Generally I would have nothing, more or less, against a happy and free spread of love, though this case in particular upsets me quite a lot for a very simple and practical reason : they are all bullshit.

Of course, some of those declarations do really come from deep in the hearts of the writers, but it gets quite funny when they come from people you've hardly ever heard of or from people you know they at least have never really liked you.

What's even funnier, is the way they are written and the things they say, which all go, inevitably, the same old way. I know you're literally dying to read some of those messages, aren't you? Well, I have a surprise for you guys! Here is what I call the Ultimate Goodbye-I Love You-BFFs Message 2.0, or the UGLY BFF Message:

Oh my God! I can't believe five years have passed by! It seems yesterday we started this journey that turned out to be the best experience of my life until now and I'm glad to have experienced it with those people that turned out to be a second family to me : YOU GUYS! Do you remember our first day of school??? As always I was (choose late or early according to the author personality) and anxious to meet those strangers with whom I'd spend some of the most important years of my youth and how strange it was to meet you all for the first time! (Please fill in a detailed description of how everyone looked the first day now). I must confess that I didn't exactly love everybody from the very beginning, and  (name of the person the author still secretly hates) can confirm that, right? Hahaha, but as time passed we all got to know each others very well <3 Oh, how many things we did together! Do you remember when (episode which nobody remembers but the author)? Hahahahahaha I will miss those moments for the rest of my life <3 <3 <3 I just wanted to tell you guys that I love you, and will always do, and I know we'll never stop seeing each others! As (name of a teacher) always said: (lame quote from the teacher)! Remember, it's not a "goodbye", but a "see you later, alligator"!   XOXO

And that was the last time you ever heard of them.

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